Do you have anything to back this up? It appears to just be your opinion presented as fact. While I’d love to take your word on your opinion presented as a fact; I would prefer to see some data or documentation to back it up. Thanks!
It seems to me that Starbucks is pulling a “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!” here.
On one hand I can see why they’d do that, on the other hand they still need to operate within federal employment law and it sounds like the NLRB says they aren’t. Presumably they can challenge that in court if they disagree?
On the other hand, the entire job of a union busting consulting firm is to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt about unions. The claim that unions would take actions, or fail to take actions, to make it less likely for their members to receive a pay raise, is the kind of claim that a union busting consulting firm would likely make. This is Public Relations 101.
Is the claim defendable, probably not, but the NLRB just found that Starbucks is trying to discourage stores from unionizing (which sounds like something they would do...) So I'm much more inclined to believe they're being unhelpful in union negotiations than a newly minted union is.
The union does not appear to be new at least to me. It seems like the StarBucks union is apart of a larger organization of unions.
So this isn’t a _new_ union or a union _moving fast and breaking things_ it’s a conglomerate of other much veteran unions.
> Starbucks Workers United is a national collective of Starbucks Partners who help organize workplaces alongside Workers United Upstate, a union with members across many industries, including the coffee industry.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/12/19/starbucks-union-...
Less than 2 years from your own article.
That counts as newly minted. Also how many of those locations have a contract at this point? That's the bigger and more relevant piece of this. The fact that other unions are helping them out, doesn't mean that those other unions have negotiated with Starbucks. That's it's own thing that makes every union negotiation different.
Nope, you’re just pro union so you don’t see it as anything but black and white.
In other news wolf says he doesn't prey on sheep.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166277326/starbucks-bernie-s...
Nope, you're just anti union so you don't see nuance against your worldview, you just trust what corporations tell you.
Wow, you're sooo edgy.